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BT profits rise 20 percent despite revenue drop

...and the customer base has almost trebled in the last six months." Mobile termination rates The drop in transit revenue was mainly caused by the... Read more

28 July, 2011 by David Meyer

Orange and Vodafone go it alone with PAYG price hikes

...higher. Vodafone explicitly blamed the rises on an Ofcom-mandated cut in mobile termination rates (MTRs). An MTR is the charge an operator levies on... Read more

4 July, 2011 by David Meyer

Landline-to-mobile calls to become cheaper, Ofcom rules

...low". On Tuesday, the regulator imposed cuts of around 80 percent to mobile termination rates (MTRs). These are the charges that a mobile operator levies... Read more

15 March, 2011 by David Meyer

BT to raise prices for line rental, calls to landlines

...for calling mobiles in response to looming cuts in the UK's mobile termination rates (MTRs). The company was a vocal campaigner for the MTR... Read more

19 July, 2010 by David Meyer

Vodafone: Stop making us cut our prices

...said, according to a report in the Guardian. "Regulators should stop cutting mobile termination rates, pushing down roaming prices, building funny auctions which are designed... Read more

28 February, 2012

Landline-to-mobile cap to drop 85pc after BT wins row

...swifter. Image credit: Jon Yeomans The telecoms regulator said last year that mobile termination rates (MTRs) — the amount operator A charges operator B to let... Read more

15 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Virgin Media customers opt for higher speeds

More than 50 percent of Virgin Media's new customers sign up for 30Mbps or more service, and more than 25 percent of all its subscribers are on 20Mbps, the company said as it reported billion-pound quarterly revenue Read more

27 October, 2011 by David Meyer

BT cuts landline-to-mobile call costs

...phones from its landlines, after Ofcom forced cellular operators to cut their mobile termination rates. In March, the regulator said operators would have to cut... Read more

25 May, 2011

BT to make landline-to-mobile calls cheaper 'soon'

...customers as soon as possible". "Ofcom has made some worthwhile reductions in mobile termination rates, which will benefit customers in the near future," BT Retail... Read more

1 April, 2011

3 takes a One Plan gamble on voice

...but its backstory is interesting — if you're into the long-running mobile termination rates (MTRs) story. First, the tariff: 2,000 any network minutes... Read more

1 July, 2010

Mobile operators set to receive rate cuts

The Competition Commission has decided the UK's mobile termination rates — the amount one operator pays another to connect a call... Read more

26 January, 2009 by Jo Best
Welfare Analysis of Regulating <endeca_term>Mobile Termination Rates</endeca_term> in the UK (With an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger

Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (With an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger

...externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs) on total welfare, consumer surplus and profits. The authors... Read more

20 March, 2010

Calls to mobiles to become cheaper after Ofcom rate cut

...Ofcom announced Thursday that it is to dramatically cut mobile termination rates, the charges that operators make to each other to receive... Read more

1 April, 2010 by Richard Thurston

Bad Ofcom! says Reding

...sent an open letter to Ofcom chastising it for its proposal that mobile termination rates (what operator B charges operator A when A's customer... Read more

28 November, 2006

Campaign urges cheaper calls to mobiles

Terminate the Rate, a campaign to lower mobile termination rates, is to hand a petition containing over 114,000 signatures... Read more

28 October, 2009 by Carly Newman

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